Well I didnt think I would be blogging this ever, but tonight as I was sitting on the couch and having a drink of JD.....on ice....not that that is important...but I dont want to leave anything out, and I was watching Friends.... the episode when Ross asks Emily to marry him...so funny...Ross really should look into why he cant be alone and has to be married all the time... maybe his Dad has something to do with it and the way he was raised....maybe they had a distant relationship that really affected him as a child and now he cant stand to be alone.... but anyway....where was I......ah yes.....watching Friends...... I was comfy and was in deep rest mode and I all of a sudden I coughed and as I did I looked up towards the ceiling and low and behold all I could see was smoke....about a foot deep moving slowly across the ceiling to the front of the house.... so I jumped up to see what was going on and as I turned to start to walk to the kitchen (the kitchen being the room that 81.4% of where all fire's start in a typical house hold) I saw the back bedroom wall was not looking like it normally does... but this time it was a wall of fire.... I walked to the room and looked inside it and the whole back wall and ceiling was covered with flames to which in turn made me yell out FIIIRRREEEE..... just so Lexie and Greg new that the back room was being decorated in a flame look much to our dissapproval.
So then I jumped into gear and started to remember my Fire Training from my old Movie World days.....for starters...which fire extinguisher do I use.... so I thought for a quick second what started the fire and I knew right away it must of been the lamp so I knew it was electrical but since the fire was already in full blaze I just turned the lamp off and since we dont even have a fire extinguisher in the house the training went out the window anyway, so I ran to the kitchen and filled up the first thing I could find with water, a shot glass, but then remembering it was the whole back wall of our house...not the Hamsters house...I knew that would not be enough so I filled up a cooking pot and went and tackled the fire with good old H2O.
During this time Greg had knocked on the neighbours house asking them to call the fire brigade not realising he had his own mobile in his hand and that even though Lexie was screaming and could not come down the stairs at first because she couldnt see them anymore due to there being so much smoke, once Lex had got down stairs in only her robe ,and only with what she could grab in time...her handbag....(passports are not that important apparently) she managed to get outside and call the fire brigade anyway.....Greg came back and passed me in the hallway with a pot also full of water..... and left over scrambled eggs he had just cooked and was stuck in the bottom of the pot....what a look that is when you show the firemen what you use to tackle a blazing house fire.


So.... By this time the Blaze was under control....the two pots of fresh water that I threw at the blaze and the one pot of fresh watered scrambled eggs that Greg threw on the fire had put it out but the smoke was a issue so as Lex and Greg retreated to the outside world I opened windows and doors and then retreated also outside.
The Fire Brigade showed up and went through the house and checked it all out to make sure it would not start up again by pouring more water over the already newly decorated back wall and then went on to ask questions and give us a lesson in fire safty, even though they were pretty happy with what Greg and I had done.. saying next time hold off on the eggs. ....and also, the way Lex was dressed was pretty good for them, but they then put in a smoke alarm for us and will bring another one tomorrow to put upstairs. Thankyou Mr Fireman.
Now all I have to do is go tell the landlord.....but that should be alright also due to the fact that the are pulling the whole house down to re build next year. Phew. But still..... James...the guy who just moved into the room.... now has to sleep on the couch until I make the room presentable again to sleep in and he also just hung up two suits which now all that remain are two hooks from the coat hangers. That will teach him. London life is flaming fun.
